Snow has caused major traffic delays for those trying to leave Tahoe, so much so, that a Bay Area man drove the long way home - nearly 1,000 miles.
LAKE TAHOE, Calif. -- As a powerful winter storm swept through central and northern California, leaving multiple highways closed and holiday travelers stranded, one desperate driver embarked on an epic 1000-mile journey to get home.
As reports of road closures, traffic backups, accidents, and delays on key highways filtered through, he feared he and his girlfriend may not make it back to the Bay Area in time.They left Reno by driving east and then south nearly all the way to Las Vegas, through Bakersfield, and eventually back to Castro Valley - a 15-hour, nearly 1,000-mile ride home that ended at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday.
Marcela Cardona, who was also trying to leave the Tahoe region, Zoomed with our sister station KGO-TV as she sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic along Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe late Tuesday morning.
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